I am not saying these are Bad Companies in the sense they have not done amazingly innovative things. Im just saying they make a ton of money off the internet. For them to go scotfree with no regulation suggests to me that maybe that is not the right approach. Maybe we should look at who is making all the money and why it would take so much out of the system. It is because they are selling your information. Watch the communicators on cspan2 at 8 p. M. Eastern. In case you missed it on cspan, Veterans Affairs secretary david schalk and. 20 veterans day are died by suicide. That should be unacceptable to all of us. It requires solutions that not only the va will work on. University law professor sanford teachout. To the incredible class we have in this country. Mark twain writes about this in his novel the gilded age. Two different languages of corruption that happen in the late 19 century where elites start to say it isnt really corrupt, this is the way we do things. And everybody else s
Today i will talk about the building, arch street Meeting House, a quaker place of worship, also a little bit about quakers. A lot of our visitors dont know much about the religion before they get here, which is an interesting issue. When you go to on the two were of the catholic church, one of those historic cathedrals, people usually have sort of background knowledge, we have found her visitors dont. If it would in our tours, we answer a lot of questions about whether or not quakers are puritans, we do basic education. This is a good place to have that basic education the arch street Meeting House is the largest quaker Meeting House in the united dates, maybe the world. We are looking into it. It was elton 1804. The land that the properties built on seeded in 1701 by william penn. The property outside his first fairground until dont you. Im sure we will get to that later. At the beginning of our tours that we normally do with visitors and school groups, we have look around the space.
Building, arch street Meeting House, a quaker place of worship, also a little bit about quakers. A lot of our visitors dont know much about the religion before they get here, which is an interesting issue. You go on a tour of perhaps the catholic church, one of those historic cathedrals, people usually have sort of background knowledge. And we have found our visitors dont. We answer a lot of questions about whether or not quakers are puritans so we do basic education. The arch street Meeting House is the largest quaker Meeting House in the United States and maybe the world. We are looking into it. The land that the properties built on seeded in 1701 by william penn. The property outside his first fairground in pennsylvania. Im sure we will get to that later. At the beginning of our tours that we normally do with visitors and school groups, we have them look around the space. It is outside the norm. We have people look around and let us know what is different here versus other historic
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa
Lockdown can get them at the School Library today. Reporting live. Nia wong 8 news now. brian loftus . nia wong . brian loftus Opening Statements are expected to start today in the bundy brothers trial, in oregon. Ammon and ryan bundy. And five others are facing federal charges for the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge, earlier this year. They were protesting federal land policy and the imprisonment of two ranchers. Ammon and ryan are the sons of bunkerville rancher cliven bundy. Who is facing charges for his own armed standoff at his ranch in 2014. and michael sandford, the british man accused of attempting to shoot donald trump during a rally at Treasure Island earlier this year. Is expected to take a plea deal today in a federal court hearing. This is video of sandford being arrested in june. After allegedly attempting to grab a metro officers gun during the rally. His Attorney Says sandford will plead guilty to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. And disrup